03 Jun 1952
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1952
Page
1
President hopeful Eisenhower begins retirement from the Army after submitting a request to retire without pay. He plans a Kansas City stop for a cornerstone ceremony at the museum and a life-and-military parade before addressing a large audience. He then travels to Abilene and New York ahead of further campaign events.
The page describes a vast circus lineup with feats by Oscar Konyor the comedy lions, Dieter Tasso and others performing on slack wire and high wire, flying trapeze star Miss Mara, and Ringling troupe stars led by Emmett Kelly. Also notes a Hollywood engagement: Rhonda Fleming to Dr Lewis Morrill.
Democrats convene in a four hour session amid a dispute over delegate power. The Mahoney and Alesandro factions clash over national committee seats with Lindsay nominated by Mahoney and Lee favored by Alesandro. Maryland faces possible shifts if county clashes arise and Kefauver backing is debated.
Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower returns to his hometown Abilene Kansas for a Thursday news conference at a movie theater. He will face hundreds of reporters before ceremonies including laying a cornerstone for an Eisenhower museum and a welcome parade. Questions are expected on labor policy Korea farm price supports and the steel seizure ruling.
In predawn fighting eight Chinese rifle groups probed a five mile sector on the western front near Lalay. Allied artillery repelled probes and estimated Red casualties. East of the Satae Valley Allied forces endured heavy artillery and mortar shelling with thousands of rounds reported.
The hospital honored Miss Remsburg with a watch for her decades of service. She expanded from half staff to overseeing all Hue Cross accounts while the facility grew from 75 daily patients to about 190. A Kee Mar College graduate, she remains devoted and plans no retirement.
Richmond Ind June UPA reports Grace Cunningham 22 of Berkeley California and Robert MacAllester 28 of Ithawa New York were to wed Wednesday after a month apart forced by their college. He said the institution compelled him to complete a prior academic month away from campus.
In a Hancock court session Judge Mish sentenced several to the House of Correction for breaking and entering and liquor offenses. Clarence McBride got 60 days for selling liquor and Andrew Black 90 days. Rollie Callman fined 150 dollars with weekly payments. Donald H Newman colored received three years after a sodomy conviction. Frank T Barr fined 400 dollars with a two year suspended sentence for buying stolen ham.
A child displayed a loaded German Luger to two firemen as they erected a new alarm box. The pistol fired harmlessly, a bullet whistling overhead. Firemen restrained the boy and confirmed the weapon was fully loaded.
Two young mothers from Sacramento were placed on one year probation for stowing away on a Guam bound Air Force plane. Jeri T. McDaniels, 26, and Mazine Alten, 23, pleaded guilty to impulsive actions at McClellan Air Force Base in April and must pay $250 restitution.
In San Francisco June 3 Republicans and Democrats vie for California delegates amid a crowded field. Earl Warren backs progressive GOP line and faces attacks from rival groups while Kefauver supports Truman era factions. Voters total about 6.3 million with 2.99 million Democrats and 2.19 million Republicans in line for Senate and House seats.
Montebello California police arrested 38 year old Charles Edward Calkin last night on suspicion of violating the state health and safety code. Officers say the garden contained no marijuana. Calkin was booked and held for questioning.
Rescue teams pressed a life saving tunnel to five miners entombed over half a mile underground after a cave in at the Penn Kee Iron Ore Mine. Mine inspector Theodore Nyuan doubted any would be alive amid the rock and earth collapse on the 28th level.
Thousands of acres of California farmland inundated as Tule and San Joaquin rivers burst levees from heavy spring runoff. More than 46,000 acres of cotton and grain flooded in Tulare Basin and 4,080 acres of alfalfa and tomatoes near Tracy. Snowmelt risks more breaks. Onions and asparagus noted.
Prisoners in compounds 6 7 and 8 remained tense after an accidental shooting by Allied guards killed one POW and wounded another. Two POWs were wounded yesterday including a man shot while attempting to escape. Boxmner ordered Communist flags removed as prisoners staged a mock funeral and external tensions rose over the handling of bodies and demonstrations.
The Supreme Court refused to disturb executions of a Puerto Rican who attempted to assassinate President Truman and a Nisei whose actions led to American deaths in a Japanese POW camp. It also denied reviews for Blair House assassin Oscar Callazo and for Tomoya Kawakita, convicted of treason in California, with clemency left as the only hope for Callazo.
Baltimore pays tribute to Rev. John Carrall Moore World War I chaplain of the 311th Infantry who went over the top at Montfaucon on September 26 1915. He was wounded by shrapnel and gas and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery after saving troops by tossing a live grenade back to the enemy.
Kawakita, condemned for treatment of GOs at a Japan World War II prison camp, returns to the country after the war. He is spotted in Los Angeles by one of Din victims, drawing public attention to wartime accountability.
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