Thunderous artillery barrage against Communist guns on Korean front
Allied artillery hammered the Central Korean Front in a massive but intermittent barrage aimed at breaching Chinese positions near Triangle Hill and Sniper Ridge. South Korean forces held Sniper Ridge after repelling two early Saturday attacks while Air Force losses and a high rate of shelling continued in the week’s combat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
Triangle Hill
Sniper Ridge
AP Cor
John Randolph
Kumhwa
Fifth Air Force
U. N
North Korea
Woman held in fatal Billings stabbing case
In Billings a man in his late 50s was found stabbed to death as music played. His wife Rachel Evans, 35, is in custody after claiming self defense and detailing a confrontation that led to the fatal wound. A pearl knife lay near the body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billings
Washington State
Jack Ordway Evans
R. L. Pedersen
Rachel Evans
Rachel Louise Pederson
Walla Walla
Wash
Roy R. Stewart
James W. Schwarzrock
al Bonnarens
Stewart
Evans
Anaconda Forest Fires Brought Under Control
Three forest fires in the Anaconda district of Deer Lodge National Forest were brought under control late Friday night. The largest blaze near Mount Howe and Nelson Gulch covered about 30 acres and may have been started by careless hunters. Two smaller fires near Warm Springs Creek were also controlled. Smoke jumpers from Missoula aided the Nelson Gulch fire but could not land due to high winds. they later reached the area by land.
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Anaconda
Deer Lodge National Forest
Mount Howe
Nelson Gulch
Warm Springs Creek
Pindar
Eden Heads to U S for Ike Korea Plans Talks
British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden travels to the United States with Churchill's instruction to learn Eisenhower's Korea trip plans. In New York he will confer informally with several of Eisenhower's advisers, though no meeting with Eisenhower is yet scheduled.
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London
U.S
Anthony Eden
United States
Winston Churchill
Dwight D. Fisenhower
Korea
Britain
Eisenhower
Eden
New York
Alger Hiss appeals denial of new trial in court order
Alger Hiss filed a federal appeal from a court order denying a new trial. The former State Department official serving a five year perjury sentence slams Judge Henry W. Goddard for lacking a fair hearing. He moved for parole in Washington a day earlier.
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New York
Alger Hiss
State Department
Washington
Hiss
Henry W. Goddard
Soviet Leader Warns West as Bolshevik Anniversary Observed
Marshal Semeon Timoshenko told a Moscow crowd the Soviet armed forces are fully prepared to repel any invader and can deliver a strong response. He decried warmongers and a Western arms race amid the Bolshevik anniversary events with Stalin present at Bolshoi Theater and parade ceremonies.
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Thomas P. Whitney
Moscow
Semeon Timoshenko
Bolshoi Theater
Stalin
Mikhail Peruvkhin
Timoshenko
Red Square
Democrats Lead in House Contests With Several Races Unresolved
Democrats held leads in four of five undecided House contests as late returns show Republicans with a narrow edge overall. Final tallies may take weeks with absentee ballots and canvasses determining winners in Idaho Florida California Colorado Missouri and Washington.
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Washington
U.S
House of Representatives
House
Adolph Sabath
Illinois
Don Magnuson
al Canwell
Magnuson
Canwell
Idaho
Grace Pfost
John T. Wood
California
Ernest K. Bramlett
Will Hayes
Colorado
Wayne N. Aspinwall
Howard M. Shults
Florida
Courtney Campbell
William C. Cramer
Missouri
Morgan M. Moulder
Max Schwabe
Possible GOP Row Over Senate Leadership Test for Ike
Washington reports a potential GOP split over Senate leadership as President elect Eisenhower may intervene at a January meeting with Republican leaders. Styles Bridges hints at moving to President pro tempore, while six senators are named as possible successors. Eisenhower’s landslide vote total nears 60 million as AP tallies show 33,029,304 for Eisenhower and 26,584,344 for Stevenson.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Senate
Eisenhower
Associated Press
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
GOP
White House
Bridges
Senate Republicans
Kenneth Wherry
Nebraska
Wherry
Navy blimp crashes into Atlantic. crew rescued by submarine
A Navy blimp on a routine anti submarine patrol dumped a window and vented its gas engine failure causing it to drop 500 feet and sink. The 11 man crew were rescued by the submarine Seadog and later transferred to the Escape. Lt. George R. Keiser commanded the blimp from Fort Royal Pennsylvania. Lt Comdr L W Strum Jr led Airship Squadron Two. The downed craft was deemed unsalvageable.
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Brunswick
Atlantic Ocean
Here
George R. Keiser
Fort Royal
Glynco Naval Air Station
Seadog
Escape
L. W. Strum Jr
Jacksonville
Fla
Airship Squadron Two
Flight engineers suspend strike to let wage dispute probe proceed
AFL flight engineers halted their walkout against United Air Lines to allow a presidential fact-finding board to examine wage demands. The back-to-work order, issued by Union President William Kent in Mineola New York, took effect at 4 30 p m CST.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.P
AFL
United Air Lines
William Kent
Mineola
N.Y
Lie Names Lawyers to Advise Him on Communist Problem
United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie named three eminent lawyers William Dewitt Mitchell Sir Edwin Herbert and Prof P Veldekens to advise on the issue of American communists in the UN secretariat. They are to meet November 14 to discuss conduct required of international civil servants and the UN position on government inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
N.Y
U.N
Trygve Lie
William Dewitt Mitchell
U.S
Coolidge
Edwin Herbert
Britain
P. Veldekens
Belgium
Catholic University of
Severe Storm Lashes Europe Leaving 18 Dead
A Europe wide storm slammed from Britain to Greece killing 18 and causing ship groundings. Winds up to 94 mph toppled vessels, damaged port facilities, and forced a halt to NATO maneuvers as fleets sought safe harbors.
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Europe
Hamburg
Germany
Britain
Greece
English Channel
Irish Sea
North Sea
Holland
Berlin
Sicily
Rhine
Worms
Wesermuende
Faustus
Hook
Alps
Dodecanese
Turkey
Voice of America
British Isles
Asia
NATO
Mediterranean
Two U S planes crash in Mediterranean storm during Longstep maneuvers
In Naples Italy two U S military planes crashed within 45 minutes amid a Mediterranean storm during Allied Longstep maneuvers. At least three bodies were recovered from one wreck, with a second crash near Capodichio airport and a third incident off Sicily’s coast leaving three aircrew rescued from the sea.
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Naples
Italy
U. S
NATO
U.S
Lo Spagnolo
Salerno
Capodichio
Sicilian
Speculation on Bradley Truman Message to Clark in Korea
General Omar Bradley met with President Truman to clear a message for General Mark Clark in Korea. The State Department supports Clark's sea defense zone despite Soviet protests. The note concerns operational matters and not Eisenhower’s Korea trip plans.
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Washington
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Truman
Mark Clark
United Nations
Korea
Bradley
State Department
Clark
Pentagon
Eisenhower
White House
James V. van Fleet
Eighth Army
U.S
Hayden to be dean of Congress in new session
Senator Carl Hayden of Arizona will serve as dean of the Congress convening January 3. He is 75 and has served in Congress since March 4, 1911 after taking office as a representative.
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Washington
Carl Hayden
D-Ariz
Congress
Hayden
Provoo Treason Trial Testimony On Death Threats
John D. Provoo posed as condemning a fellow American prisoner to death claiming he would shoot every American officer if given the chance. Corp. Robert M. Brown testified that Provoo proposed harming Capt. Burton C. Thomson and sought to turn nurses over for immoral acts. Brown recounted threats and a rape attempt during captivity on Corregidor’s Malinta Tunnel.
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New York
John D. Provoo
Provoo
Corp
Robert M. Brown
Brown
Corregidor
Burton C. Thomson
Thomson
Lateral
Malinta
Hunter shoots two elk then accidentally injures himself
In Helena, Sheriff Dave Middlemas reports a 20 year old Charlo hunter admitted to intentionally shooting two elk near Lincoln. He shot a cow elk first, then killed a bull and finally injured himself by pistol in the hip as he dressed the cow. He left the cow and moved the bull, later receiving medical treatment.
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Helena
Dave Middlemas Fricay
Charlo
Lewis and Clark
Lincoln
Union Chiefs Say Members Voted Democratic
AFL and CIO spokesmen claimed union members voted overwhelmingly Democratic in Tuesdays elections but said workers were outvoted by the population. They noted wives likely backed Eisenhower and that unions showed strong Democratic totals in large industrial areas. It remains unclear if union leaders delivered the voting bloc.
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Washington
AFL
CIO
Organized Labor
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Democratic Party
Truman
AFL and Cio
French Forces Cut Red Supply Line
French Union troops in Indochina launched a double offensive cutting the Vietminh supply route from Phu Tho toward Vietra. Infantry and armor moved southeast from Phu Tho and joined other units ten miles northwest of Vietra, forcing about 2000 Vietminh to withdraw along the road with light resistance from guerrillas and snipers.
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Vietri
Indochina
China
Phu Tho
Hanoi
Vietra
Air Force pilot lands fire-struck B-50 bomber in Arizona
In Tucson Captain Blaine R. Butler safely guided a fourengine B-50 Inter Continental bomber to Davis Monthan air field after a check flight fire broke out in an inboard engine. Seven crew members parachuted to safety as the plane continued on three engines.
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Tucson
Ariz
U.P
Blaine R. Butler
Davis-Monthan Air Field
Doctor Is Killed as Gunman Goes on Shooting Spree
An Army veteran opened fire on Wilshire Boulevard, killing Dr. J. W. Quinn and wounding another man before fleeing. Richard Holbrook, 35, was arrested after being identified by florist Joseph Ivener, who pursued the suspect in his delivery truck. Dr. Quinn was a 1938 graduate of St. Louis University and a Queen of Angels Hospital physician with a wife and four children.
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Los Angeles
Wilshire Boulevard
J. W. Quinn
Quinn
Richard Holbrook
Wilshire
St. Louis University
Army Medical Corps
Queen of Angels Hospital
Joseph M. Ivener
Holbrook
Ivener
Minn. centenarian’s son jokes over breakfast and ironing
George Kraft, son of Mrs. Carl Kraft who turns 100 on Saturday, says his mother helps by making breakfast and cleaning, but he draws the line at ironing beyond an hour and a half and hides the iron.
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Fairmont
Minn
George Kraft
Carl Kraft
Eisenhower to Name Representatives Before Inauguration
President elect Eisenhower, after receiving a top secret White House message, assured Truman he will promptly name personal representatives to the State and Defense Departments. Hagerty said the reply signals action on the key posts during the interim before January 20.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Augusta
Dwight D. Eisenhower
White House
Truman
Defense Departments
Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
Air Force
Albert L. Cox
Washington
Defense
State Departments
Budget Bureau
United Nations
Hagerty
Military Plane With 19 Aboard Missing
An Air Force C-119 transport with 14 Alaska Army troops and five crew went missing during Operation Warmwind drills from Elmendorf near Anchorage to Big Delta. Alaska command ordered a search as planes from Elmendorf and Ladd bases scoured the area five hours overdue. The C-119, one of 40 in the exercise, is operated by the 435th Troop Carrier group out of Miami International Airport.
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Big Delta
Alaska
Elmendorf
Anchorage
Alaska Command
10Th Air Rescue
Ladd Air Force
435Th Troop Carrier Group
Miami, Fla., International
Truman Sets Up Liaison System for Transition to Eisenhower
President and President-elect moved to ease the shift of power by designating liaison figures for foreign affairs, defense, and finance. Truman sent a request to General Eisenhower to appoint representatives in State and Defense. Eisenhower agreed to send aides to Washington for indoctrination and budget coordination ahead of his inauguration.
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Truman
United Nations
Eisenhower
Washington
Congress
White House
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