UN forces strike in Korea to blunt Red offensives
UN commanders ordered fighter bombers to target Central Front fortifications while air, Marine, and South Korean planes destroyed 55 enemy gun positions and 55 bunkers on Sniper Ridge. A MiG was shot down. strikes also hit a military HQ and vehicle yard near Wonsan as ground actions eased.
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Seoul
Korea
United Nations
U.N
Wonsan
North Korea
Sniper Ridge
Triangle Hill
Rocky Point
Jane Russell Hill
Triangle
Nese
R.O.K
New Captains Take On Work In Eisenhower Administration
Herbert Brownell Jr designated next attorney general will review criminal and civil cases at the Justice Department. Harold E. Stassen named to lead Mutual Security Agency brings long public service record. George M. Humphrey to Washington to begin early briefings as transition continues. The report notes Brownell will withdraw from Lord Day & Lord after 20 years.
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New York
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Eisenhower
Department of Justice
Truman
Brownell
Department
Lord, Day and Lord
Peru
Neb
University of Nebraska
Yale
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
G.O.P
Harold E. Stassen
Mutual Security
Republican
Stassen
University of Pennsylvania
Minnesota
Wendell Willkie
Bank Robbery Confession Ties Birth Motive to Cash Theft
Patrick Morrison of Robinson Illinois confessed to robbing the People's State Bank of Farmersburg Indiana's Fairbanks branch after claiming a need for money for his newborn baby and hospital treatment. He admitted stealing 1086 dollars, was captured after a chase, and the money was found in his hat.
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Morrison
Everett Alexander
Crawford County
Ill
Illinois
Floyd Thompson
Lois Pound
Mr. Thompson
Mrs. Pound
FBI
Merom
Hutsonville Toll Bridge
Hutsonville Bridge
Alexander
Illinois Road No. 1
Eaton Road
George Gibson
R. R
Terre Haute
Heavy 22 Inch Snow Hits Four Southern States
A shifting air mass dumped up to 22 inches of snow on Tennessee North Carolina Virginia and Kentucky paralyzing communications and transport. Snow melted quickly yet left Dixie towns looking like polar outposts with record depths in Knoxville Morristown and surrounding areas. Casualties included a young man and woman killed at a railroad crossing and two women injured when a marquee collapsed under snow.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee
North Carolina
Virginia
Kentucky
Dixie
Morristown
Jet bomber sets 565 mph record Honolulu to Albuquerque
A Boeing B-47B four engined jet bomber averaged 565 mph on the 2,434 mile Hawaii to New Mexico flight. The craft completed the trip in 4 hours 22 minutes, beating its own previous record by 30 minutes as it returned to Travis AFB from Honolulu via California.
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Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Honolulu
Pacific
Albuquerque
N. M
City bus drivers approve six day week
Terre Haute City Lines drivers voted yesterday on their workweek. The referendum favored a six day schedule, with a five day week described as optional in the agreement reached last weekend with the company.
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Terre Haute City Lines, Inc
Weather Summary From U S Weather Bureau
Cloudy conditions with 36 degrees at noon. River stage 2 feet and stationary. Sunrise 6 41, sunset 4 31. Average humidity 77 percent yesterday. Highest temperature 46 degrees, lowest 35 last night. Precipitation none. Local conditions report.
Regional Weather Summary for Indiana Illinois
Cloudy periods with light rain possible tonight and Sunday across Terre Haute and vicinity. Temperatures range from lows in the mid 30s to highs in the low 40s with Indiana areas mostly cloudy and northern sections seeing more rain. Illinois shows similar trends with northeast rain and south portion likely wetter by Sunday. temperatures mostly in the upper 30s to upper 40s.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
India Plan Gains Support as Korea Prisoner Issue Moves
United Nations dispatches say Bolivia and Iraq backed India's compromise to end the Korean war prisoner problem. The U N political committee awaited official Communist reaction from Poland's Stanislaw Skresczewski, who postponed his address to Monday. Russia opposes the plan in its current form over mandatory screening of prisoners. Ukrainians reiterated Soviet objections to voluntary repatriation as the committee awaited further responses.
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United Nations
N.Y
Bolivia
Iraq
India
U.N
Stanislaw Skresczewski
Moscow
Russia
A. M. Baranovsky
Czechoslovakia
Chinese herdsmen use scented soap says Peiping radio
Tokyo dispatch reports that the Communist Peiping radio claimed Chinese cowboys and Mongolian herdsmen are now using scented soap but did not specify the fragrance or brand.
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Tokyo
Peiping
Double Purchases Reported in Vigo County Christmas Seals Drive
First week results of the 1952 Vigo County Tuberculosis Society Christmas seal sale show donors doubling or tripling gifts. Anton Hulman chairs the drive with a $23,000 quota. F. Burch Ijams heads seal bonds. The effort funds tuberculin tests chest X rays and patient care.
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Vigo County Tuberculosis Society
Anton Hulman
F. Burch Ijams
Tuberculosis Society
T.B
Lloyd Riley
B. A. Electrical Contractors, Inc
V. A. Shanklin
J. B. Harned
L. A. Malone
Joseph Weber
Charles F. Hanley
Robert A. Schumaker
W. W. Krieble
John W. Dinkel
Joe F. Watson
Ford L. Wilkinson
Pauline Duffy
Mary Y. Dempsey
A. W. Cavins
Train strikes car killing two in Indiana
In Winchester Indiana a car driven by Reverend Leland Patterson age 59 from Henryville was struck by a train at a grade crossing Friday night. Two women died Truly Patterson 57 and Jammie Johnson 53. Virgil Johnson 57 and Patterson were hospitalized with non serious injuries. Police blamed no crossing flasher and rain may have impaired Pattersons vision.
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Winchester
Ind
Losantville
Leland W. Patterson
Henryville
Patterson
Jammie Johnson
Modoc
Virgil D. Johnson
New Castle
Young Soldier Of Black Watch Wins Gamble In Freedom Race
Pvt. Tom Stanley of the Black Watch recalls a night in Korea when 750 Chinese Reds attacked his battalion. He and another private held off invaders with Sten guns and grenades before surrendering as ammo ran out, hoping to survive the war ahead.
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Young Soldier of
Black Watch
Gamble In Freedom
Leroy Hansen
Korea
Tom Stanley
Royal Highlanders Black Watch Regiment
Stanley
Newton Abbott
England
They Like Ike Signs in Seoul Front of Burned Capitol
In Seoul on November 22 a large sign on the burned capitol read Welcome President-elect Eisenhower opposing withdrawal of United Nations forces. Korean workmen also posted Drive away the Chinese Reds and unification under free Korea signs. Arrival timing for Eisenhower remained unclear.
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Seoul
Eisenhower
United Nations
Free
Korea
Three Ex-Cons And Policeman In Gun Battle
CALUMET CITY ILL Nov 22 Three ex convicts and a police sergeant fought a gun battle at the Club Ron Da Voo strip saloon four were shot and wounded. Police Sgt George Pernicaro entered as shots rang out wounding Pernicaro and ex convicts Reinholt Langer Fred Ferraro and Tommy Baze. Langer a Leavenworth two time loser was jailed for a 1948 butter hijacking at Middleton Wis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calumet City
Ill
George Pernicaro
Middleton
Wis
Spen
Driver Safely Survives 33 000 Volt Ordeal
Morrisville Pa November 22 a Langhorne truck driver Worth H Thompson 30 rode in the cab as 33 000 volts arced through the truck body for 45 minutes. A raised ladder struck two high wires breaking one and resting on the other. rubber mats and the seat cushion likely saved him from electrocution.
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Morrisville
Worth H. Thompson
Langhorne
Thompson
British financier robbed of 29000 pounds in London jewels
British financier George Dawson, linked to postwar profits from U S Army surplus, was robbed of jewels and furs worth about 29000 pounds in a break in at his luxury London home. Thieves entered via an upper story bedroom during his Friday night dining. Dawson had been cited by a U S congressional committee in 1950 as a leader in surplus material deals.
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London
George Dawson
Dawson
Congressional
Ammonia Bomb Bandit Revealed As Business Man
Police named Jacob Reuben Katz a 45 year old ice cream parlor owner as the ammonia bomb bandit killed during a money truck robbery attempt in St Louis. Officers say the wealthy man staged the scene perhaps to pull off a perfect crime while the guard fired five shots through a peephole wounding Katz and injuring himself with gas.
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ST. Louis
Jacob Reuben Katz
Joseph Flynn
Katz
Thomas Doerflinger
Capital bandits loot Stop and Shop for nine thousand
In Indianapolis three men slugged an off duty patrolman and seized his revolver during a north side Stop and Shop holdup. They escaped with full day's receipts estimated at eight to nine thousand dollars as a fourth man waited in a stolen getaway car. Officer Metzger was knocked down but not seriously injured.
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Indianapolis
North Side
Bessie Delaney
John T. Metzger
Metzger
Drowned trio swept from car in Ballenger Creek flood
Frederick, Md. police said farmhand Robert Fletcher Jr. 29 and his children Clyde 5 Linda 3 were swept from a car by a rain swollen creek near Ballenger Creek. The car crossed a bridge and overturned. all three were presumed drowned.
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Frederick
Ballenger Creek
Here
Robert Fletcher Jr
Clyde
Linda
Thoughtful Bandit Robbery In Detroit
Leon Hauff, 51, was robbed of $100 by two gunmen in Detroit on Friday. As they prepared to leave one suggested shooting him, but the other declined saying it would cause a bigger mess.
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Detroit
Leon Hauff
Hauff
Burglary at City Mattress Co Ends With Sleepy Theft
Buffalo police report a burglar entered City Mattress Co and stole a mattress and comforter from boxes, blocking a door with the cardboard. The intruder slept on the mattress and left by morning, with $200 cash in the drawer untouched.
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Buffalo
N. Y
City Mattress Co
A F L Presidents Funeral Set For Monday In Ohio
William Green 82 the AFL leader dies of heart ailment in Coshocton Ohio after 28 years guiding eight million workers. Funeral is Monday at Grace Methodist Church with Rev John H Shanley in charge.
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Coshocton
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Ohio
A.F.L
Green
Grace Methodist Church
Methodist Church
John H. Shanley
First Baptist Church
Bill” Green
Philip Murray
San Francisco
Third International
George Meany
George M. Harrison
Railway Clerks Union
Cincinnati
Harrison
Earthquake Strikes California From San Francisco to Los Angeles
A sharp quake rattled California before midnight felt across the state from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Seismologists called it moderately large with an epicenter near Parkfield in Monterey County. No immediate damage reports were found from Parksfield.
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San Francisco
California
Bakersfield
John A. Weber
S. J
University of Santa Clara
Los Angeles
Santa Clara
Charles Herrick
University of California At Berkeley
Gl’s in Korea Ready To Tell Ike They Want To Win War
GIs in Korea plan to tell General Eisenhower how to finish the conflict and return home. Some push for a rapid end to the war while others want a strong push to push back the enemy. Soldiers from Illinois West Virginia and Chicago share desires to speed up rotation and determine their future.
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Korea
Gen. Ike
Ike
Pfc
Bob Nieweem
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Orvil Selbe
Owens Station
Charleston
W Va
Edgar Porchin
Chicago
Ill
Eisenhower
Lucius Bright
Mother Held After Baby Death In St Paul
In St Paul Minnesota on November 22 Mrs Kenneth Jensen said she dressed her 22 month old daughter and later strangled the child during an unexplained attack. Police held her without charge for psychiatric observation as investigators review the case.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Kenneth Jensen
Air Defense To Grant Christmas Leaves Despite Holiday Duty
Washington officials announced that Air Defense personnel will receive Christmas leaves while keeping full defensive strength. All air defense units including the 24 hour sky watch will remain manned throughout the season.
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Washington
Pentagon
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Adlai E. Stevenson
Ika
William E. Green
Humphrey
George M. Humphrey
Robinson
E. Tennessee
U. S. Weather Bureau
Capital Bandits
Thoughtful Bandit
John L.lewis
Organized Labor
Lewis
United Mine Workers
U.M.W
C.I.0
C.so
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